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NEW YORK — The fiery Islamic preacher who was flown to the United States from Britain over the
weekend after a lengthy extradition battle pleaded not guilty to terrorism charges yesterday.

The preacher, known as Abu Hamza al-Masri, told a judge in a Manhattan courtroom that he wanted
to be addressed as Mustafa Kamal Mustafa, which is his birth name.

The judge, Katherine B. Forrest of U.S. District Court, set a trial date of Aug. 26; the trial
is expected to last six to eight weeks. The judge said she wanted to get the case to trial “as
quickly as we can.”

Mustafa, 54, is charged with conspiring in a 1998 kidnapping of American and other tourists in
Yemen and in trying to help set up a terrorist training camp in Oregon.

Mustafa, who once roused militants with sermons at the Finsbury Park mosque in North London, sat
quietly in court, answering softly when the judge asked whether it was his intention to plead not
guilty.

“Yes, it is,” he said.

One apparent need of Mustafa’s that was not discussed in court yesterday is being addressed, an
official said later. The defendant is widely known for the hook he uses as a prosthetic device on
his hand; he lost an eye and the lower portions of both arms in explosions years ago.

Mustafa has appeared in court in Manhattan without his hook, which presumably was removed for
security purposes; the bare stumps of his arms hung out from the short-sleeve jail shirt that he
wore.

The official said after the proceeding that Mustafa has been allowed to wear the hook for eating
and for hygienic purposes at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, where he is being held, and that
arrangements were being made to fit him with new prosthetic devices. “They won’t be hooks,” the
official added.

Two men extradited with Mustafa appeared yesterday before another judge in the same courthouse.
Adel Abdul Bary and Khalid al-Fawwaz each pleaded not guilty on Saturday; they were charged with
conspiring in the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in east Africa that killed more than 200
people.

Judge Lewis A. Kaplan set a trial date of Oct. 7 for the two but made it clear that he wanted to
hold the trial sooner, if possible.

At the hearing yesterday, Bary nodded rhythmically on a few occasions but otherwise appeared
focused and still. Fawwaz seemed rapt, whispering occasionally to his attorney and once smiling as
he spoke to her.